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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Skeptics deny the validity of the resurrection, but we have many reasons to believe Jesus conquered death and rose from the grave. Reason #1. Fulfilled Prophecy Jesus’ resurrection was prophesied in the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. <Printable Download of “Because it is Finished” below> On the cross, Jesus uttered seven things: 1. “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34).Fulfills Isa...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Excerpted from Room with a View of Eternity ~The Last Will and Testament of the Lord Jesus Christ, by Shari Abbott and Alex McFarland When Jesus said, “With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. [Watch the Video Below: The Hope of Easter] Two More Reasons a Thursday Crucifixion Fits with What the Bible Teaches If you have not read Reason #1 that gives an answer to the question, “Was Jesus crucified...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In Matthew 5, we have the most beautiful explanation of the attitudes we are to be in life. Take a minute and refresh your memory of the Beatitudes that Jesus gave us. Sadly, the world has a very different...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The word “fidelity” is not often used today. We often hear of infidelity, especially in reference to a person being unfaithful to his or her spouse. But what about “fidelity?” It’s a...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. [Watch below the video illustrating the story of Horatio Spafford and his hymn, “It is Well with My Soul.”]] Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888) was a wealthy Chicago businessman and lawyer, married with...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. John 12:20-21 Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast. Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Frances Jane van Alstyne, more commonly known as Fanny Crosby, was an American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. She was a prolific hymnist, writing more than 8,000 hymns and gospel songs, with more...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. (Download the checklist document of names and titles for Jesus, below.) Lent is one of the oldest Christian practices, dating back to the first-century church. However, Lent wasn’t formally declared a church...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Check out our “Get Started List for Lent” (below). Lent begins a season of 40 days prior to Easter Sunday. It is intended to be a time of reflection and preparation to celebrate Easter, much in the same...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We all experience challenges in life. If life is not tough for you right now, just wait. I’m sure you know that it will be soon. I don’t mean to sound pessimistic, but you know it’s true....
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. When fear grips us, where do we look? The Bible teaches us a great lesson about the importance of looking to Jesus (don’t miss the video below). Peter’s Fear When I think of mind-controlling fear that...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The world uses the word “love” very loosely. We love chocolate, we love our car, we love a TV show. The list goes on and on. We hear the word “love” being used in ways that diminish its...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There’s a song from the 1960s that posed a most profound question, “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” The lyrics are secular, but the refrain is hauntingly provocative: What’s love got to do,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Fear is an infectious disease that doesn’t kill the body but rather controls the mind, crushes the soul, and hardens the heart. Fear is not of faith. Rather, it is one of Satan’s greatest tools to...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Eschatology is the study of end times.Both the Bible and the Quran have very clear end-times prophecies.So how do Christian eschatology and Islamic eschatology differ? ***A Hidden Message in Psalm 23?*** Hidden...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. How we can hear God’s voice in darkness and despair, depression and anxiety, aloneness, sadness, and suffering? Let’s consider what we can learn from the psalms. Many of speak profoundly about emotions...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There is clearly proclaimed a curse upon the bloodline of Jeconiah in Jeremiah 22:30 God declared that none of Jeconiah’s descendants would ever reign over Israel. Jeremiah 22:30 Thus saith the LORD, Write...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The verses in question are from the prophet Habakkuk, the apostle Paul, and the writer of Hebrews (whom most believe was Paul). Hab 2:4 … the just shall live by his faith. Rom 1:17 …The just shall...
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